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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · Low Light Performance "where the rubber meets the road"


Here's another crop between a Olympus OMD-EM1 and the 6D I've been testing. Interesting that at dusk like this the Canon was happy with ISO400 and the Olympus had to drag out ISO6400, which as you can plainly see provided some horrible resolution. The 6D did rather well I think. There was rather little light to work with as well. This is from about a mile and a half away in smog today.

First the Olympus
http://www.pbase.com/traveler/image/153976534/large.jpg

and then the Canon 6D
http://www.pbase.com/traveler/image/153976563/original.jpg



Dec 31, 2013 at 07:53 PM
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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · Low Light Performance "where the rubber meets the road"


How about some EXIF?


Dec 31, 2013 at 08:43 PM
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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · Low Light Performance "where the rubber meets the road"


The Olympus was 1/200s f/8.0 at 300.0mm iso6400 and the Canon was 1/125s f/5.6 at 300.0mm iso400


Dec 31, 2013 at 09:04 PM
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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · Low Light Performance "where the rubber meets the road"


Hahaha if you're comparing them why did you stop down to f8 on the Olympus (giving you way more DOF than the Canon) and use a faster shutter speed on the Olympus.

If you would have shot the Oly at F5.6 (which would still give more DOF) and used 1/125 than you'd be shooting at ISO 1600 which would likely give much better results



Dec 31, 2013 at 09:22 PM
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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · Low Light Performance "where the rubber meets the road"


Yeah, I agree that it's not quite fair for the Oly. Still, low light is the 6D's thing, and it would be hard for a much smaller sensor to compete there.


Dec 31, 2013 at 09:35 PM
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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · Low Light Performance "where the rubber meets the road"


sb in ak wrote:
... low light is the 6D's thing...


The 6D "ain't got no thang"; if you can get the subject in focus, at an appropriate aperture, shutter speed and ISO, then the 6d will deliver...





Dec 31, 2013 at 09:41 PM
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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · Low Light Performance "where the rubber meets the road"


Are these screencaps?



Jan 01, 2014 at 04:18 AM
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p.1 #8 · p.1 #8 · Low Light Performance "where the rubber meets the road"


Wait, are you showing us that a larger sensor, ~4x the area (2x linear dimensions) of another sensor, has a 2x high-ISO advantage over the smaller sensor?

Shocking!




Jan 01, 2014 at 04:35 AM
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p.1 #9 · p.1 #9 · Low Light Performance "where the rubber meets the road"


Why not run both cameras in M mode and dial in the same aperture, ISO and shutter speeds? AutoISO can be really random at times, especially in a dim low contrast situation.


Jan 01, 2014 at 04:51 AM





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